It’s Australia, which is like Texas if it was its own country and had coal instead of oil.

Oh, if anyone is wondering why anyone would pass up a free trip to some far off island, the answer is simple: because then I’d owe them. Those people love social capital more than financial, because they have more of the latter than they’ll ever need, but you never know when you need the former. Social capital keeps…

See, for 0.1%ers, the what you buy them really doesn’t matter. Like a lot of things in their lives, it’s kind of a farce. All the guests know you don’t need gifts, and you know the guests can farm out even the trivial effort of browsing the gift registry to assistants. But everyone goes along with the pretense of both…

Huh, and here I though they best way to build a fire was to use half Grants and half Franklins. But I guess the poors have to be a little more careful building fires. Wouldn’t want to singe their boostraps, which they don’t use enough.

Door to door sales is ALWAYS hiring.

Really hoping they’re doing a better job with WW than they did the Vision. He kind of came out of nowhere and was suddenly center stage for 10-15 minutes. The intro had impact, unfortunately, that impact was “who the hell is THIS guy”?

Nobody outside of skyscraper nerds gives a shit about any of that.

Terraces, on their own, are fine. 3 World Trade, the next tower over, will have 3 of them. The problem is that this is a building that looks like it’s about to fall over...which is also fine in general...on a site most famous for buildings that actually fell over. It is grossly inappropriate.

That’s...fucking horrible.

True, but he’s always claimed he was just, which is what makes him a fraud.

Fuck Ayn Rand.

Fair question. The answer is because children tend to fixate on a single aspect of an issue and have a hard time understanding context or subtext. His/her argument only makes sense in a complete vacuum. It is child-like.

Ned Stark lost the GoT because he hesitated, not because he was just.

...or just dump in 2 parts water for every part of rice. I mean, you’re not just dumping rice from the box/bag into the pot without taking the roughest of measurements, right? This isn’t baking, getting it right to within a quarter cup is fine.

I’m sorry, do you not understand that GoT is entertainment? That aside from all of the philosophy, and human examinations, that it has to make people enjoy watching it?

And yet, what purpose did Shireen’s death serve in the overall narrative of the story and the tone of the show if within 10-15 minutes of happening people had pretty much put it in the back of their minds to awe at CGI dragons being all dragony?

I love a good conspiracy theory that is both crazy and incredibly stupid.

Crispy browned rice is great, but that doesn’t make it burned.. Going from browned to actually burnt is...well...I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen it.

How the hell do you burn rice? Even pan fried rice is extremely forgiving.

Per Google, she’s 5’7”, possibly up to 5’9” given that women tend to underreport their height by up to 2 inches.